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🤝 SN Sellers & Business Club: How to get paid in Bitcoin?

85 sats \ 12 comments \ @AG0RA 1 Jul AGORA

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Welcome stacker and cowboys to our weekly edition of this Sellers & Business Club series! Thank you @beejay, @BlockchainB, @fauxfoe, and @AG for participating in the previous editions .

Here, you'll find everything you need to move faster, sell smarter, and stay ahead of trends—with useful insights for every step of the way, community-powered learning posts, insights, and support from other sellers.

Find yourself in the right place, if you're serious about growing your business, or starting a new one, stay with us! This week we talk about #BitcoinAccepted and How to get paid in Bitcoin: Some questions to worm up the floor:

Payment processors: how many have you tried? What are you currently using?

Your insights and questions are welcome.

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50 sats \ 3 replies \ @fauxfoe 1 Jul

One of my big blockers is setting up infrastructure for the new business. I'm doing it myself instead of paying my usual IT person because I won't have that first check for a few more weeks.

Setting up a wiki, a file server, a secrets manager, etc. I haven't been my own sysadmin for years and I am re-learning a bunch of pieces.

Why don't I just pay $10/user/month for each service I need? Mostly because the recurring costs of carrying people is a poor fit for my structure. My businesses tend to carry a lot of people who don't do much. They're in the system but inactive until I need them. We use a lot of contractors. Paying $100 a year X however many services X a bunch of barely active people is fine when you're flush. Then the business hits a rough patch and you're clawing for savings.

So here I am deploying docker and building new workflows.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @AG 2 Jul

I know is not easy especially without technical knowledge. This process will put yourself in a muuuch better position when issues will arise (hopefully never - but is good to be prepared) instead of relaying to third parties IT and external personel.

It's hard to keep up with tech innovation ad constant updates. This diy approach will take more time, it's the best investment you can probably do for your business and yourself (2 in 1).

Keep it up, one say you'll enjoy the orchestration of a working system with just few clicks 💪

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @fauxfoe 2 Jul

I hope so. My last company ran on infrastructure we built and it was amazingly good for me and maybe less so for the team. This time around, I am trying to design for less tech-savvy teams as this venture is not just hiring developers. Still, I am looking forward to having the revenue to staff it properly!

Speaking of such, contract negotiations are almost done. Trying not to count these chickens before they're hatched, but it's tempting when I am 99% sure I will get a six-figure check next week.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG 3 Jul

It will come with time. Be also prepared in case does not happen though... I guess you don't need my best luck, you did all the hardest part already. The check will be the well deserved consequence for that.

21 sats \ 5 replies \ @beejay 1 Jul

I just let people check out at my website and click on "Bitcoin - send me an invoice" and they get a code to scan or address to copy and it works fine. One day I'll probably do BTCPay. First time I tried to set it up was last year, and it was a fail because I didn't have the latest version of PHP installed on my website's server but I've since moved to my own host.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @AG 2 Jul

Nice, that works really easily for the customer to pay with sats. Which plugin or payment provider are you using?

BTCPay is probably not that easy to setup, in the other side there are some public instances that allow guest shops to be created and make it easier for merchant to accept bitcoin as a payment method.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @beejay 2 Jul

I am not using any payment provider or plugin to accept Bitcoin on my online store I built. The setup I outlined above is simply just substituting the "Cash on delivery" option within WooCommerce, I just changed the verbiage to say "Bitcoin - Send me an invoice" and people place their order, and I invoice them via email. Boom.

7 sats \ 1 reply \ @AG 2 Jul

That's an interesting approach! I was not expecting that aren't third parties involved, really smart! So I get you respond to customers via email including the two options (onchain or LN) and they chose, but how do you then match the order with the payment when you receive it? These days seem to me a lot of manual processing!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @beejay 3 Jul

The website I built takes the order just as any online shop does. The notice of the order comes to me by email and I just reply to it with my invoice qr codes and pasted LN/BTC addresses. I don't have to cross-check anything, takes me maybe 2 minutes. I think personally replying to each customer also adds a special touch.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG0RA OP 2 Jul

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG 1 Jul

🙋‍♀️ I start! The AGORA.ftp.sh give us the opportunity to integrate and test many payment processors including BTCPay, LNbits, Coinos, PayWithFlash, Speed, OpenNode. Believe it or not, they are all available for customers at checkout...

Does it make sense? Well, yes, because we let the user pay with the medium they trust more. So yes, I can say the AGORA shop is BitcoinAccepted ready... We should put some sticker on there...

PayWithFlash is the only one we had not received payments yet. Just yesterday I saw this video and I issue what this girl is saying is sincere and honest.

At some stage, I'd like to try @OPAGO_PAY IRL, because I have not seen in their site a way to integrate the system with existing ecommerce sites.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nitter 1 Jul bot

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